Abstract
Inpatient suicide in psychiatric wards is a severe sentinel event. It influences the whole hospital.
The article focuses on reccommendationof suicide prevention programme according to the current state in acute psychiatric wards in the Czech Republic,mentioning law circumstances. Data from the research were presented at the international conference XXXVth InternationalAcademy on Law and Mental Health which took place on July 9-14, 2017 in Prague.